2.5% is paltry. Canada had 3.5% (that's a 40% increase over the US GDP). Do your homework and find out why Canada is out performing the US economy. Hint: it has to do with reigned in government spending, less regulations out of Ottawa and lower tax rates. Originally Posted by WhirlawayThis is a monumental switch! Normally the Right-Wing Loon Machine speaks against Canada's economy at every opportunity. Why, because Canada has a national health-care plan firmly in place. Yikes! Now the Loon's are using our neighbor to the north as a shining economic example. Who would have ever thunk it?
2.5% is paltry. Canada had 3.5% (that's a 40% increase over the US GDP). Do your homework and find out why Canada is out performing the US economy. Hint: it has to do with reigned in government spending, less regulations out of Ottawa and lower tax rates.You forgot a thing about Canada: HEALTHCARE FOR ALL
Originally Posted by Whirlaway
This is a monumental switch! Normally the Right-Wing Loon Machine speaks against Canada's economy at every opportunity. Why, because Canada has a national health-care plan firmly in place. Yikes! Now the Loon's are using our neighbor to the north as a shining economic example. Who would have ever thunk it?You are wasting your breath there BT!
How can Canada have both sound fiscal policy and national health-care at the same time? What 'chu talkin' 'bout Willis? You guys have been trying to make the case that NHC wrecks every economy where it exists and now we find out "Canada has reigned in government spending," despite having a national health-care system firmly in place.
Somebody's got some serious splainin' to do! Originally Posted by bigtex
You are wasting your breath there BT!FYI
These right wing loons think that having healthcare cost 16/17% of our GDP every year (and rising) is just a great way to run a country.
You do not see them tout Canada's military expansion, you know why? Because Canada does not blow money that way. They piggyback off our ass, just like Japan, Germany and the rest of the free world.
The ignorance of people in this country is the problem, not the politicians, they just exploit it.
They deserve Hermain Cain as our next President! Originally Posted by WTF
Your links did not work...The links work just fine. Your operator head-space might need adjusting.
But I'm glad to see Canada is ready to invade Jamaica.
The following is a table of the top 15 countries with the highest military expenditure for 2009 published in the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Yearbook 2010 using current market exchange rates in current (2009) US dollars.[5]
RankCountry2010 Spending ($ b.)Share of 2010 GDP (%)World Share (%)—World Total1 6302.61001 United States6984.842.82 Chinaa1192.17.33 United Kingdom59.62.73.74 France59.32.33.65 Russiaa58.74.03.66 Japan54.51.03.37 Germany45.21.32.88 Saudi Arabiab45.210.42.89 India41.32.22.510 Italy37.01.82.311 Brazil33.51.62.112 South Korea27.62.81.713 Australia24.02.01.514 Canada22.81.51.415 Turkey17.52.41.1 Originally Posted by WTF
2.5% is paltry. Canada had 3.5% (that's a 40% increase over the US GDP). Do your homework and find out why Canada is out performing the US economy. Hint: it has to do with reigned in government spending, less regulations out of Ottawa and lower tax rates.Thanks for taking the bait Whirlway- just as Tyrnagetlaid pointed out- whatever good things happen under Obama you shun it to the side- I promise you had the news been the GDP decreased by 2.5% you would have been the first to make a thread of how bad things are- how in the hell cn anyone say that "growth" is not good- albeit the growth was small nevertheless any type of growth is good news and WTF does Canada have to do with it??? You mentioning Canada who has a far smaller economy than the U.S is no different if I were to say :" The U.S economy is not bad- it's much better than Haiti's economy- comparing Canada's economy to the U.S economy is apples and oranges.
We need at least 200,000 new jobs every month for the next 4 years to get back to pre-recession levels; Obama doesn't know what he is doing. Obama's policies are killing any robust recovery that economies usually get when emerging out of a deep recession.
And that 2.5% GDP is being eroded quickly by the uptick in oil; we are now back up at $94 a barrel oil price, so any gains in economic growth is for naught..expect gasoline pump prices to rise accordingly.
Applying the Joe Biden economic modeling theory; I wonder how many murders and rapes have occured because Obama was elected President and our economic recovery (and tax revenues) hasn't been robust...enquiring minds want to know. Originally Posted by Whirlaway